Congress 114 - HR 2866 - Healthy MOM Act

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Administrative law and regulatory procedures Employee benefits and pensions Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Health Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Women's health

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Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act or the Healthy MOM Act

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act and Internal Revenue Code to require health insurers, health insurance exchanges, and group health plans to offer a special enrollment period to pregnant women beginning when the pregnancy is reported to the issuer, exchange, or plan.

The Office of Personnel Management must ensure that eligible pregnant women are allowed to enroll in federal employee health benefit plans outside of the open enrollment period.

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Jul 2, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 26, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 23, 2015

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jun 23, 2015

Introduced in House

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